These days more and more devices are showing up that support a
number of different access technology families in the same hardware,
like Qualcomm Gobi (CDMA and GSM), Pantech UM190 (CDMA and GSM),
Pantech UML290 (CDMA and LTE), LG VL600 (CDMA and LTE), Sierra
320U (GSM and LTE), etc. The previous scheme of having device
classes based on access technology family simply cannot handle
this hardware and attempting to add LTE to both the CDMA and GSM
device classes would result in a bunch of code duplication that
we don't want. There's a better way...
Instead, combine both CDMA and GSM device classes into a generic
"Modem" device class that provides capabilities indicating what
access technology families a modem supports, and what families
it supports immediately without a firmware reload. (Gobi devices
for example require a firmware reload before they can switch
between GSM and CDMA). This provides the necessary flexibility
to the client and allows us to keep the API stable when the
same consolidation change is made in ModemManager.
The current code doesn't yet allow multi-mode operation internally,
but the API is now what we want it to be and won't need to be
changed.
NMSettingsConnectionInterface was created to allow the daemon and NM
clients to have common code that handled both system and user
connections. It's no longer needed now that user settings services are
gone.
This concludes the flattening of libnm-glib.
NMSettingsInterface was created to allow code to operate on a settings
service without caring about what kind of settings service it was. Now
that we have just one settings service, this is no longer needed.
More work needs to be done in order to handle errors and permission
settings in an appropriate manner.
In continuation of the theme, the removal of user settings services
means that the distinction between NMSysconfigConnection and
NMExportedConnection is no longer needed. Merge NMExportedConnection
into NMSysconfigConnection.
Much as with nm-remote-settings and nm-remote-settings-system, the
removal of user settings services means there is no more need for
separate interfaces for user and system settings services.
In libnm-glib, this commit merges everything in
nm-settings-system-interface into nm-settings-interface. Alongside with
that, we merge everything in the
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.System DBus interface into
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.
Originally, nm-remote-settings was used by the daemon to monitor the
user settings service, and its subclass nm-remote-settings-system was
used by NM clients to monitor the system settings service. With user
settings services gone, this distinction is no longer needed. Simplify
things a bit and merge the classes.
